When the Future is Obscured

How can I experience what God can do
	Except by the things He puts me through?
I can read about just what it took
	To live for God in some ancient book.
Or I can hear about it from the lips of my mother
	Or from one of my sisters or a brother.

I can see it, too, in drama on a stage
	While actors run and rant and rage.
But just to learn it all first hand and find
	That God is good and great and kind,

To learn how God can set a prisoner free
	Unless I first that prisoner be.
To escape from the pessimist's trap,
	I first must feel the ironšs snap.

How can we expect to be
	All that we can and are?
There is no gain without some pain
	That our plans may sometimes mar.

So let me place my hand in God's
	And never even try
To understand what God is doing
	Nor ever ask Him, "Why?"

Some may seek a psychic
	Or tea leaves in a cup
Some may try a Ouija board
	Or look their horoscope up

But I will trust in God to do
	What is best for me
Until I enter Heaven's gates
	And my dear Savior see!



Pastor Van, 2/28/97